Forwarding events from IBM Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent

If you use IBM® Tivoli® Enterprise Console or IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus to manage events in your enterprise, you can forward events from Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent to these event management products.

About this task

You must enable event forwarding and install the event synchronization component to forward events from Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent.

Procedure

  1. Enable event forwarding on the hub monitoring server and define a default destination server.
  2. Configure the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console server, or the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus event server to receive the events.
  3. Install a situation update forwarding process on the event server.
  4. Install and import the BAROC file for the agent on the event server for events forwarded toIBM Tivoli Enterprise Console.

    For detailed instructions on enabling event forwarding and installation of the event synchronization component, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation and Setup guide.

  5. Optional: With Situation Editor in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, select the situation events to forward to your chosen event server.
  6. Optional: Assign an event status compatible with the target event server.
    For information on specifying the situation events to forward, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help.